In light of powerful new evidence in the Rosenberg Case, we are calling on President Biden to exonerate Ethel Rosenberg in these final days before he leaves office on January 20th. To help:
1. Please sign and share the petition: https://www.rfc.org/ethel
2. Send an email to the Office of the Pardons Attorney to urge President Biden to act NOW (instructions & template at https://www.rfc.org/take-action-to-exonerate-ethel).
When Ethel Rosenberg was executed in 1953, her sons were only 6 and 10 years old. In the nearly three years before then, she was an imprisoned mother painfully separated from her family. As a loving caregiver of her two young sons, the U.S. government robbed them of precious time together and the vital support she provided them.
Ethel was accused of spying at the height of the McCarthy Era Red Scare, but her conviction was based on perjured testimony and prosecutorial and judicial misconduct. A newly declassified NSA memorandum, written by a top U.S. codebreaker who decrypted secret Soviet communications, also confirms that the U.S. government *knew* Ethel Rosenberg was not a spy long before her trial. But they executed her anyway.
The government cannot return Ethel to her loving family. But it can admit this miscarriage of justice.